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The seamstress’s apprentices
One of Prima Crisafalo’s costumes from NEYT’s 2015 presentation of “The Tempest.”
Arts

The seamstress’s apprentices

Grant allows NEYT to train a new generation of costume designers, with a little help from an up-and-coming Brattleboro-based corsetière
By
Richard Henke
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 — Issue 358

BRATTLEBORO — This story will be reposted soon with corrections.

Arts

Animal rights, human dignity

By
Annie Landenberger

BRATTLEBORO-Composer and pianist Keane Southard, who has produced numerous works for choral and instrumental performance,

A family's artistic dynasty

By
Joyce Marcel

BRATTLEBORO-Artistic talent travels down the generations, and Cai Xi has the generational stories to prove...

Ukrainian artists discuss their folk art at BMAC on May 17

BRATTLEBORO-In connection with the exhibition "Contemporary Ukrainian Folk Art: The Matrix of Resilience," currently on...

Sweet sounds and sweet treats at benefit concert

SAXTONS RIVER-Music, community, and dessert come together for a good cause on Saturday, May 10,

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News

Selectboard to discuss funding abortion access

By
Kevin O'Connor
Wednesday, July 27, 2022 — Issue 674

This town's initial protest against the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling to overturn abortion rights was simple: 100 people congregating downtown to chant, “My body, my choice.” Ten days later, a local demonstrator, saying “forced birth is appallingly cruel and morally grotesque,” marched naked down Main Street, doused in fake blood, just before the start of the Fourth of July parade. Now the Selectboard is considering making its own statement with “A Resolution to Protect Pregnant People's Access to Abortion,”

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Voices

About time

By
Darren Tessitore
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 — Issue 322

It's about time! I've had enough of institutions like the Brattleboro Retreat stealing our hard-earned tax dollars in the name of “mental health.” We should all applaud whistleblower Thomas Joseph and anyone like him. Well done!

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Arts

Literary Cocktail Hour spotlights new book on Theodore Roosevelt

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 — Issue 765

BRATTLEBORO-This month's edition of the Brattleboro Literary Festival's Literary Cocktail Hour, on Friday, May 17, at 5 p.m., presents Edward O'Keefe, author of The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President in an online conversation with Michael Cullinane about Theodore Roosevelt and the women in his life. Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his senior thesis for Harvard in 1880 that women ought to be paid equal to men and have the option of keeping their maiden names upon...

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